298 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Beth Mintz and Esther Rothblum -- 1. Reflections on Being an out Black Lesbian on a Southern Campus / Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander -- 2. In, Out, or Somewhere-In-Between / Christine Cress -- 3. Coming Out and Coming In: A Kind of Homecoming / Mildred Dickemann -- 4. The Silent Partner Finds Her Voice / Penelope Dugan -- 5. Out in the Heartland: Lesbians, Academics, and Iowa / Michele J. Eliason -- 6. Living Outside the Center / Kathryn M. Feltey -- 7. Out in the Maine Woods / Maggie Fournier -- 8. Out in Academic Psychiatry / Nanette K. Gartrell -- 9. Becoming a Lesbian in Academia / Barbara W. Gerber -- 10. Out on a Small Southern Campus / Charlotte L. Goedsche -- 11. The Making of a Lesbian Academic, 1974-1995 / Nancy Goldstein -- 12. Is "Out" Now "In"? A Letter to a First-Year Lesbian Professor / Batya Hyman -- 13. Double Vision: Lesbian Twins in Academia / Sherrie A. Inness and Julie C. Inness -- 14. Way Out at Saint Michael's College / Carey Kaplan -- 15. Is it Homophobia, Heterosexism, Sexism, or Can I Pass? / Sandra M. Ketrow -- 16. Creating My Own Security / Kathryn H. Larson -- 17. Being Out in Academia: A Year of My Life in Enid, America / Jan McDonald -- 18. Transforming "The Master's Tools": Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Graduate School / Carol J. Moeller -- 19. Of African Descent: A Three-fers Story / Akilah Monifa -- 20. This Is the Place / Sue Morrow -- 21. Skirmishes in the Borderlands of Identity: Lesbians in Women's Studies / Sally O'Driscoll -- 22. Stray Sheep or Shepherd? "Out" in the Florida Classroom / Christy M. Ponticelli -- 23. Lesbians in Utah: Behind the Zion Curtain / Patty Reagan -- 24. Beyond Silence: Life as Academics and a Lesbian Couple / Amy L. Reynolds and Raechele L. Pope -- 25. The Perils and Pleasures of Being an Out Lesbian Academic; or Speech from the Scaffold / Jennifer Rycenga -- 26. Reading, Writing, and Talking to People / Bonnie R. Strickland -- 27. Subversive Education / Lynn A. Walkiewicz -- 28. Consenting to Relations: The Personal Pleasures of "Power Disparity" in Lesbian Student-Teacher Partnerships / Stacy Wolf and Jill Dolan -- 29. My, How Times Have Changed ... Or Have They?: A Quarter Century as a Lesbian Academic / Anonymous -- 30. Degrees of Freedom / Penelope Dugan -- 31. The Lesbian Experience: An Analysis / Mary Frances Stuck -- 32. Lesbians, Class, and Academia: Some Thoughts about Class-Based Identity and Difference / Michelle Tokarczyk and Suzanne Sowinska -- 33. Women of Color, Sexuality, and the Academy: A Few Thoughts / Maria C. Gonzalez -- 34. Steppin' Into and Out of Academia / Roxanne Lin -- 35. Older Women in Academia / Phyllis Bronstein -- 36. Queer Theory: The Monster That is Destroying Lesbianville / Lynda Goldstein -- 37. The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians / Sheila Jeffreys

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